About Me

After five years in business, we are now in our third location! We started in a former bank building on First Street, then moved around the corner to the space of a former department store. We are now located in a beautiful building that formerly housed Poor Richard's Art. It was originally a pharmacy, and retains all of it's beauty with wooden shelves, glass display cases, tile floors, metal tile ceilings and beautiful woodwork. The setting is perfect for all the styles of fabric and fibers we carry. Our yarn shop is located upstairs, along with the wonderful and inviting classroom space. The downstairs displays wonderful quilt samples, fabrics from reproduction to modern, wool, stitchery, books, patterns and notions.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Time flies -- here it is July already! We will be closed on Sunday and Monday for the holiday. I hope everyone enjoys celebrating our many freedoms and remembering our troops that sacrifice so much for us.

We are busy getting ready for our "Quilts of Valor" auction at the shop on Friday evening, July 15. Since many of our friends may not be able to come, we will accept prebids on items -- we'll start posting some of them on the website and featuring them in our email newsletters right after the holiday.

If you are unfamiliar with the "Quilts of Valor" program, you can find out all about it on www.qovf.org. Their mission is to provide quilts to men and women who have been injured or touched by the wars. To date, they have given out over 40,000 quilts.

This year, we have been hosting workshops to make quilts for the soldiers, and making available kits with patriotic fabrics. Several fabric companies have designed beautiful collections for us, with proceeds from the sale of the fabric to benefit Quilts of Valor.

Shown is one of the quilts that will be in the auction, donated by Jo Morton. She is a well-known quilt and fabric designer, and this quilt is made entirely with her fabrics from Andover Fabrics. We have enjoyed using her "American Valor" collection in making quilts for the soldiers in our workshops.

Keep watching for more information on what will be happening with our auction!